Fake Canucks Season - Iginla trade and Predator hilites

With the Fake Season starting to pick up momentum (John Garrett gave us a shoutout on Sportsnet during the Wolves-Heat game. Thanks John!), it’s time we sat down and went over a few things. You will remember last week I asked you about several trades, and asked you to weigh in on them and if we should do them. The major trade offer was of course the Iginla trade. Let’s look at the trade poll results first:

As you can see, the fans shot down the Hal Gill trade, preferring to put their faith in soft shooting Tanev for the time being. The Hejduk offer was a close one, but that gets nixed in the end. The Canuck killer won’t be playing for Fake Vancouver any time soon.

The real fun is with the Iginla trade. Obviously with Raymond and Ballard, two of the main fan targets in Vancouver, the trade was approved with overwhelming support. Here is my fear though; the trade is TOO fake. I know, it’s a fake league, who cares, right? Well, I realized when I first did the trade options, I never gave the option for NO trades at all, so I want to give people one more chance to think this over. I also want to throw another trade offer into the mix.

The Anaheim Ducks have offered Saku Koivu for Kellan Tochkin and Yann Sauve. This might be a possibility Canucks fans should look into. The Canucks are in a desperate need for a 2nd line center. Let’s take a look at current 2nd line center Jordan Schroeder’s stats:

Jordan Schroeder

6 games player

0 points (only player aside from Tanev with no points on the season)

-1 on the season

3 shots

57 minutes of play (lowest on team. Fake AV hates him.)

Saku Koivu would help this team down the middle immensely. With Fake Ryan Kesler not joining the team any time soon (He blocked me on twitter. I fear Ryan Kesler is not a fan of the Fake season.), it might be prudent to look into upgrading that 2nd line center depth. Or maybe you want to do the Koivu trade AND Iginla trade? I don’t know, it’s up to you guys.

So I am posting this one final trade poll, and whatever you guys choose this time, I will go for it. I just wanted to make sure we all took our fake time and made sure we knew all the fake consequences of acquiring fake Iginla.

And if THAT wasn’t enough trade action for you, I have another trade that might interest you. The Tampa Bay Lightning, sick of Sami Salo only 5 games into their season, have offered him to the Vancouver Canucks. What do they want in return? They want Dale Weise and Darren Archibald. So weigh in and say if you want Salo back on the Canucks: (Keep in mind if everyone claims option 3 in the above poll, we most likely can’t make this Salo trade due to cap issues)

Now, I have had people ask me for stat updates on the Fake Season. I will post a major update of stats on Tuesday night after the Pittsburgh game, so you can see the standings, the point totals, and the league leaders. b

Phew, I think that is it for this post. Don’t forget to check out the live stream of tonight’s Vancouver Detroit game, it will be on at 7pm at http://www.livestream.com/fakecanucksseason . Below are the highlights for the Predators game last Thursday if you missed the game! (Columbus highlights will be up later tonight).

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